Building on the success of her first Musical Rumpy Pumpy! Barbara Jane Mackie is writing and composing 'Cowboy Girls', an exuberant and moving Western set in the 1880's focusing on the lives of two young peasant Irish Girls, the fearless Maeve and her younger sister Bridge, shy and stammering who escape from their harsh convent in Ireland to sail off to America and head West in the Gold Rush.
On the Wagon Train, they decide they must dress as male cowhands, 'Marty' and 'Billy' to get jobs with the Cowboys. Adelaide, a society heiress, heading West on the trail of her fiancee, Charles, an English Charlatan, joins them and linking up, the three young women become 'Cowboy Girls', and then Rodeo Riders experiencing adventures they could only have dreamed of in their former lives.
Adelaide falls in love with Maeve, telling her the West is a place women can cast off the shackles of their lives and live in a different way as they search for the freedom they never had before.
Barbara's Musical Supervisor is the Oscar nominated John Cameron and her Musical Arranger is Steve Parker.
The Songs
About Barbara
Barbara Jane Mackie is a BBC-trained screenwriter. Barbara's first musical 'Rumpy Pumpy!' played at the Theatre Royal, Windsor in November 2016 www.rumpypumpythemusical.co.uk. ''Rumpy Pumpy!' is now being made into a feature film by Carnaby Films UK.
Barbara has completed the British Musical Screenplay 'The Last Chance Mommas' (script available).'